Yes without but there is a lot of space for improvement with better leverage of taskqueues and async datastore operations. We hope to reduce by 50% some some of the requests so that we spin out less instances. We also fine tuned a bit, check out our results:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2951217
I think it's still in the works. They don't mention it, but Heroku Cedar will happily reads and install requirements as defined in requirements.txt when you push to it. Server setup is just a simple Procfile calling whatever Python web server you want to use.
ep.io is gaining ground with Django developers but it also runs other WSGI apps. I don't have personal experience with their pricing but the stack and services is starting to look pretty good at the moment. Heroku Cedar Stack and DotCloud might be other options.